Emma Bell’s Reviews > The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes > Status Update

This book was really long but really meaningful and strong. Coryo just became an absolute physco, but I can sort of understand why. Also his immediate hatred for the mockingjays was crazy. Lucy Gray was smart to run but I wish we could know what she thought. This book sort of displayed how conforming to fit society can end up destroying you and so can jealousy and a craving for power. Overall, loved it. (SOOOOO LONG)

Coryo is definitely becoming more phsycotic. He’s really jealous of men that he doesn’t even know (Billy taupe) because of Lucy Gray. Besides the jealousy things seem really good for him right now in the districts. With Sejanus, his new friends Smiley, Beanpole and Bug and also the soon to be reunion between him and Lucy Gray, he seems pretty happy and even a little bit hopeful.

The games are over. He didn’t get to see Lucy Gray again before Dean Highbottom told him he must be a peacekeeper. He’s been shipped off to 12 and is completely embarrassed and despaired. Sejanus has just become a peacekeeper as well and Coryo’s genuinely happy to see him for once. Tigris’s letter was really sweet to me but Coryo took it really poorly saying he never wanted to see anyone from home again.

Lucy Gray and Jessupp finally made an appearance at the end. It sounds like deep down Coryo is still just a teenager trying to make ends meet and do what’s best to secure his glorious future but he seems to be forgetting that he promised to keep Lucy Gray alive. For a while he was really focused on her for her but now she only crosses his mind when thinking about how he can win the scholarship donated by Mr.Plinth

I’ve reached the point where Coryo goes into the arena to retrieve Sejanus but I didn’t realize dr.Gaul said he can’t leave until he has him out… Coryo is starting to become more irritated with the wrong people which is the beginning of the shift to madness

Coryo said that Lucy gray’s kiss would be enough to make him crazy… he has NO idea how right he is I guess. Highbottom’s views on the games seem to have gotten to Lysistrata and she seems really disturbed by the games. Also Coryo hates both Dr.Gaul and Highbottom? Clemens is mad at him too.. The way they hung Marcus on display.. (“he looked more like a rat” paraphrase)

Coryo was just jealous of Lucy Gray at the beginning of this. Coryo is getting really confusing, he’s already begun changing from his once perfect self. He also admitted that he has feelings for her. This also cleared up why Tigris ate raw meat in Mockingjay. The rose compact that he gave Lucy Gray… it’s so sad. He’s officially losing his mother and is half convinced he’s losing the love of his life.

Lucy mentioned the mockingbird to Coryo!!! AHHHHH. Also the end of the chapter “he really felt jealous” oh boy I think I get it. Snow is the way he is out of sheer jealousy though he’s mostly good at controlling it. This twisted story. I CANTT

Coryo is making it painfully obvious how torturous his world is. Also the shift in his dynamic with Lucy Gray is miserable. They were so good before. I remember things being so great for Coryo at the beginning of the movie and then becoming horrible, but turns out things had always been bad they just keep getting worse.

Still don’t understand his beef with Sejanus. He talked himself out of rebel thinking by simply telling himself he sounded like Sejanus. The funeral procession of the tributes was HORRIBLE (don’t think it was included in the movie 🙏) Also at the end of the chapter he says he feels a buzz when Lucy and him hold hands ;) and he’s accepted their interactions as flirting!!